Career Opportunities in Government

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Career Opportunities in Government

• NTUSPAA-NA
• San Francisco, CA
• August 2005

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HHS

• Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
• Administration on Aging (AoA)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  (ATSDR)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Health Resources and Services Administration
  (HRSA)
• Indian Health Service (IHS)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Program Support Center (PSC)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
  Administration (SAMHSA)

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NIH

• 27 institutes under NIH
• Cancer, aging, infectious disease, drug abuse,
  etc.
• Research-oriented
• Research budget 27 billion/yr
• Intramural
• About 10 of budget
• NIMH (De-Maw Chuang) (Su-Chen Wu, Shiuh-Yeng
  Chang)
• Extramural
• gt80 awarded through 50,000 grants
• NIDA (Nora Chiang Ming Shih)

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Chi-Jen Lee
Mei-Ling Chen
Sue-Ching Lin Shulin Ding
Min-Chu Chen
Shiew-Mei Huang Sue-Chih Lee
Ling-Huey Cheung Shu-Luan Lee
Yih-Chain Huang Mao-Hsin Shih
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CBER

• Reorganization
• Primary products
• Vaccine
• Blood Products
• Distinguished alumnus
• Chi Jen Lee

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CDER

• Drugs
• Synthetic
• Biotech
• Alumni
• Pharmacology /toxicology
• Pharmacokinetics
• Chemistry

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Office of Clinical Pharmacology and
Biopharmaceutics (OCPB)

• Right Dose
• Subpopulations
• Gender
• Race
• Age
• Disease
• Drug Interactions
• Genetic variants

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Interactions among Disciplines
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Those good ol days ...
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Now Electronic NDA
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Top 10 reasons for working in government
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10, 9, 8, 7
Location, Location, Location, Location
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10 Restaurants
Seven Seas
Tony Lins
Chop Stix
Taipei-Tokyo
Mama Wok
Hunan Manor
Far East
New Fortune
Hong Kong
Joes Noodle
A Js
Harvest Moon
Bamboo Buffet
Bobs Noodle
Four Rivers
Fortune Star
Fu Shing Cafe
China Garden
And MORE
Kims Hunan
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9. Climate

• Four seasons
• No earthquakes
• No floods
• Tornados rare

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8. Today, Tomorrow Yesterday
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7 Schools

• Top 100 H.S. in US
• Wooten H.S.
• Churchill H.S.

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6. Commute

• Traffic better than LA
• Subway system

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5 Quality of Work Life

• Locality pay adjustment
• Retention bonus
• Flexible work schedule
• Working from home
• Health benefit
• No mandatory retirement

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4. Professional Development
Conferences
Interactions
Research
Invited Speakers
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3 Retirement Benefit

• Health insurance
• Savings Plan
• Pension

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2. Job Security
This would not happen!!!
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1 Job Satisfaction
Impact!
Public Health
Prestige
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FDA Hierarchy
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